my fave theorie

I've been looking at the map that was drawn on the blast door of the swan. Someone had posted a copy of it on the boards and asked if anyone could decipher any of the notes written around it. Most of the notes have been deciphered, but I found a few that had some dates, a couple of which were 1980 and 1984 and one that says the known resting place of Magnus Hanso was at the Black Rock. There's also some mention of a "complete shutdown" and an "incident", as well as one that says "estimated travel time longer than 108". And one that notes 6 fatalities.

Anyway, as I was looking at the map it occurred to me that the thing had the shape and at least the basic design of a particle accelerator. I thought this was interesting when you consider that a massive particle accelerator could cause electromagnetic disturbances. It appears from the map that the stations are all centered around something (noted by a question mark) in the center. Particle accelerators are mainly used in the study of Quantum Physics, this is also interesting because some scientist, espeicially in Einsteins day and earlier, called it a psuedo science that bordered on paranormal study.

This brings me to something I had read, or heard several years ago (lol joking), and unfortunately I can't site any solid references as my memory fails me, about a particle accelerator project that was going on in Texas. If I'm not mistaken the Particle Accelerator was the largest and best one in the world. Anyhow the project was top secret and was abruptly shut down after the scientist encountered some anomolies that had to be addressed before they pursued the study any further. The only statement made was that the project had become too dangerous. Rumor had it that the partcles in the accelerator were actually duplicating due to the impoissible speeds and for lack of a better way to explain it "creating two realities". This would coincide with Einsteins theory of relativity and "light speed".

So, if you put a few things together, the paranormal activity (visions, dreams and seeming messages from the dead), the secret science projects of Dharma, the shape on the map, the electromagnetic disturbances, and the mention of "Incidents", might give some clues as to what is going on.

This theory was even more solidified with me when I saw the "other" guarding Karl's cell reading a copy of Stephen Hawkin's
"A Brief History of Time" on the 02/07/07 episode. For those who don't know Stephen Hawkin is a professor at Cambridge and is the world's foremost authority on Quantum Physics. He developed a theory that married relativity with quantum mechanics which was something scientist had been trying to do for 40 years. A nice clue the producers dropped in? Could be.

One last tidbit, slightly off topic. I believe that there are actually 2 "monsters". One is good and beautiful, the other is evil and ugly. Locke saw the good one in season one, but I think he later confused it with the evil one when it was trying to pull him down the hole, if you remember Jack saved him from that. The other one, the evil "smoke" monster is the one that got Ecko.

Please don't double post gaza - people will comment on your theories I'm sure, but not necessarily straight away.

Personally, I think it's an interesting one. I read a Brief History of Time (the updated version re-released) recently and Stephen Hawking stated that he didn't believe in retrospect (!) that time travel was possible, having studied it extensively since the first book ..... does this mean that the Lost producers are deliberately trying to confuse us?! Or that they're going with his original stated theory that if you mess with the rules of physics enough you can effectively reverse the flow of reality.... with the flash back/forwards that kind of makes sense...

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to be honest i'm rather confused now! will have to ponder it some more ...

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back to what you were saying about particle accelerators, i was thinking a similar thing! because a guy came to our college talking about general physics of the world etc. and he was from a project who are at this moment trying to complete the creation of a new particle accelerator bigger than has been made before( or maybe just very big lol), i think they've been making it for about 13 years or something and it's supposedly nearly finished, but he was very vague on what could happen if it went wrong. which i didn't find very reassuring given the size of the electromagnetic pulse this could produce lol.

also, on the texas accelerator,
on wiki it says of the cancellation

"During the design and the first construction stage, a heated debate ensued about the high cost of the project. In 1987, Congress was told the project could be completed for $4.4 billion, but by 1993 the cost projection exceeded $12 billion. An especially recurrent argument was the contrast with NASA's contribution to the International Space Station (ISS), which was of similar amount. Critics of the project argued that the US could not afford both of them.
The project was canceled by Congress in 1993. Many factors contributed to the shutdown of the project, although different parties disagree on which contributed the most. They include rising cost estimates, mismanagement by physicists and Department of Energy officials, the end of the need to prove the supremacy of American science with the collapse of the Soviet Union, belief that many smaller scientific experiments of equal merit could be funded for the same cost, Congress's desire to generally reduce spending, and the reluctance of Texas Governor Ann Richards and President Bill Clinton, both Democrats, to support a project begun during the administrations of Richards's Republican predecessor, Bill Clements, and Clinton's Republican predecessors, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. However, in 1993, Clinton attempted to prevent the cancellation by requesting that Congress continue "to support this important and challenging effort" through completion because "abandoning the SSC at this point would signal that the United States is compromising its position of leadership in basic science..."
The closing of the SSC held drastic ramifications for the southern part of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, and resulted in a mild recession made most evident in those parts of Dallas which lay south of the Trinity River. At the time the project was cancelled, 22.5 km (14 miles) of tunnel and 17 shafts to the surface were already dug and nearly 2 billion dollars had already been spent on the massive facility. "

I think I've heard about that, physics was always s a subject I found very difficult though - lots of interesting concepts, but loads of complicated maths forumals!

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Sorry but I hate physics so can't even bring myself to read the above!! .. Laughing

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